DUST AND RAIN.
If it were not for the counties* hosts! of dust particles that float, separately invisible, in the atmosphere, there could be no rain drops, snow crystals or hailstones. From a perfectly dustlcss atmosphere the moisture would descend in ceaseless rain without drops. The dust particles serve as nuclei about which the vapor gathers. The snow, crystal is the most beautiful creation of the aerial atmosphere, and the hailstone is the most extraordinary. The heart of every hailstone is a tiny atom of dust. Such an atom, with a little moisture condensed about, it, is the germ from which may grow a hailstone capable of felling a man or smashing a, window. But first it must be caught up by a current of air and carried to the level of the lofty cirrus clouds, five or six, or even ten miles high. Then, continually growing by fresh accessions of moisture, it begins its long plunge to the earth, spinning through the clouds and flashing in the sim like a diamond bolt shot from a rainbow.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 261, 25 March 1911, Page 10
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177DUST AND RAIN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 261, 25 March 1911, Page 10
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